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When Hands Learned to Cut: Engraving and the First Metals
What came first — the urge to engrave, or the pigment to paint with? The archaeological record says the cut came first, and it came from a hominin that wasn't even us. This episode traces the through-line from deliberately incised Nassarius shells to cold-hammered copper beads at Çatalhöyük, and from the first smelting furnaces in the Balkans to the engraved cylinder seals that made early cities run. Along the way: why copper — not gold, not iron — is the metal that teaches you metallurgy, how the engraver's groove doubles as the world's first non-destructive materials test, and why the…
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